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Mary Cheney, the younger daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney who married her longtime
partner, Heather Poe, last year, chastised her older sister, a Republican who is running for the
U.S. Senate, for her opposition to same-sex marriage in a Facebook post.

Liz Cheney, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Wyoming, said on Friday that she was “not
pro-gay marriage.”

“For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage,” Mary
Cheney wrote on Facebook, according to
The New York Times.

“Freedom means freedom for everyone,” she wrote, repeating a phrase once used by her father
when he was asked about gay marriage.

“That means all families — regardless of how they look or how they are made — all families
are entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as every other.”

Dick Cheney, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush, has long indicated
he was supportive of gay marriage, saying “people should be free to enter into any kind of
relationship they want to enter into.”